using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace AtCoder.ABC098.C
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main ()
        {
            var sc = new Scanner ();
            int n = sc.Nextint ();
            var s = sc.Next ().ToCharArray ();
            int wcnt = 0;
            int ecnt = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
            {
                if (s[i] == 'W') wcnt++;
                else ecnt++;
            }
            int ccnt = s[0] == 'E' ? ecnt - 1 : ecnt;
            int min = ccnt;
            for (int i = 1; i < s.Length; i++)
            {
                if (s[i - 1] == 'W') ccnt++;
                if (s[i] == 'E') ccnt--;
                min = Math.Min (min, ccnt);
            }
            Console.WriteLine (min);
        }
    }

    class Scanner
    {
        string[] s;
        long i;

        char[] cs = new char[] { ' ' };

        public Scanner ()
        {
            s = new string[0];
            i = 0;
        }

        public string Next ()
        {
            if (i < s.Length) return s[i++];
            string st = Console.ReadLine ();
            while (st == "") st = Console.ReadLine ();
            s = st.Split (cs, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
            if (s.Length == 0) return Next ();
            i = 0;
            return s[i++];
        }

        public int Nextint ()
        {
            return int.Parse (Next ());
        }
        public int[] Arrayint (int N, int add = 0)
        {
            int[] Array = new int[N];
            for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
            {
                Array[i] = Nextint () + add;
            }
            return Array;
        }

        public long NextLong ()
        {
            return long.Parse (Next ());
        }

        public long[] ArrayLong (int N, long add = 0)
        {
            long[] Array = new long[N];
            for (long i = 0; i < N; i++)
            {
                Array[i] = NextLong () + add;
            }
            return Array;
        }

        public double NextDouble ()
        {
            return double.Parse (Next ());
        }

        public double[] ArrayDouble (long N, double add = 0)
        {
            double[] Array = new double[N];
            for (long i = 0; i < N; i++)
            {
                Array[i] = NextDouble () + add;
            }
            return Array;
        }

        public decimal NextDecimal ()
        {
            return decimal.Parse (Next ());
        }

        public decimal[] ArrayDecimal (long N, decimal add = 0)
        {
            decimal[] Array = new decimal[N];
            for (long i = 0; i < N; i++)
            {
                Array[i] = NextDecimal ();
            }
            return Array;
        }
    }

    static class MathExtensions
    {
        public static long Factorial (long n)
        {
            long fact = n;
            for (long i = n - 1; i >= 1; i--)
            {
                fact *= i;
            }
            return fact;
        }

        static long Combination (long n, long r)
        {
            long molecule = 1;
            for (long i = 0; i < r; i++) molecule *= n - i;
            long denominator = 1;
            for (long i = 1; i <= r; i++) denominator *= i;
            return molecule / denominator;
        }
    }

    static class IEnumerableExtensions
    {
        public static long Nearest (this IEnumerable<long> self, long target)
        {
            var min = self.Min (val => Math.Abs (val - target));
            return self.First (val => Math.Abs (val - target) == min);
        }
    }
}

Measured memory_bytes: 13168