/**
 * code generated by JHelper
 * More info: https://github.com/AlexeyDmitriev/JHelper
 * @author aryssoncf
 */



// Taken from: https://github.com/bqi343/USACO/blob/master/Implementations/content/contest/templateShort.cpp

#include <utility>
#include <vector>
#include <random>
#include <chrono>
#include <cassert>
#include <set>
#include <queue>
#include <map>
#include <numeric>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <bitset>
#include <iomanip>
#include <complex>
#include <stack>
#include <array>
#include <unordered_set>
#include <climits>

using namespace std;

typedef long long ll;
typedef unsigned long long ull;
typedef long double ld;
typedef double db;
typedef string str;

typedef pair<int, int> pii;

typedef vector<int> vi;
typedef vector<ull> vul;
typedef vector<ll> vl;
typedef vector<pii> vpii;

#define FOR(i,a,b) for (int i = (a); i < (b); ++i)
#define F0R(i,a) FOR(i,0,a)
#define ROF(i,a,b) for (int i = (b)-1; i >= (a); --i)
#define R0F(i,a) ROF(i,0,a)
#define trav(a,x) for (auto& a: x)

#define sz(x) (int)x.size()
#define all(x) begin(x), end(x)
#define rsz resize

#define mp make_pair
#define pb push_back
#define f first
#define s second

const int MOD = 1e9+7; // 998244353; // = (119<<23)+1
const int MX = 2e5+5;

template<class T> bool ckmin(T& a, const T& b) {
    return a > b ? a = b, 1 : 0; }
template<class T> bool ckmax(T& a, const T& b) {
    return a < b ? a = b, 1 : 0; }

mt19937 rng((uint32_t)chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count());


//
// Created by aryssoncf on 28/10/2019.
//

#include <type_traits>


#include <iterator>


template <typename T>
constexpr auto hasBegin(int) -> decltype(std::begin(std::declval<T>()), true) {
    return true;
}

constexpr bool hasBegin(...) {
    return false;
}

template <typename T>
using IsContainer = std::integral_constant<bool, hasBegin<T>(0)>;


#ifndef JHELPER_EXAMPLE_PROJECT_IO_HPP
#define JHELPER_EXAMPLE_PROJECT_IO_HPP

#endif //JHELPER_EXAMPLE_PROJECT_IO_HPP

template<typename T>
std::istream &operator>>(std::istream &is, std::vector<T> &vec) {
    for (T &element: vec) {
        is >> element;
    }
    return is;
}

template<typename T, typename U>
std::istream &operator>>(std::istream &is, std::pair<T, U> &p) {
    is >> p.first;
    is >> p.second;
    return is;
}

template <class X, class Y>
std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream & os, std::pair <X, Y> const& p) {
    return os << p.first << " " << p.second;
}

template <class Ch, class Tr, class Container>
std::basic_ostream <Ch, Tr> & operator << (std::basic_ostream <Ch, Tr>& os, Container const& x) {
    bool first = true;
    for(auto& y : x) {
        if (first) {
            first = false;
        } else {
            os << " ";
        }
        os << y;
    }
    return os;
}

using namespace std;

class CStones {
public:
	void solve(std::istream& in, std::ostream& out) {
        int n;
        in >> n;
        str S;
        in >> S;
        int w = count(all(S), '.'), res = w, b = 0;
        trav(c, S) {
            b += c == '#';
            w -= c == '.';
            ckmin(res, b + w);
        }
        out << res << '\n';
	}

	void setup() {}
};


int main() {
    std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
	CStones solver;
    solver.setup();
	std::istream& in(std::cin);
	std::ostream& out(std::cout);
	in.tie(nullptr);
    out << std::fixed;
    out.precision(20);
	solver.solve(in, out);
	return 0;
}


Measured memory_bytes: 3772