import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.OptionalInt;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        MyScan in = new MyScan(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        TaskC solver = new TaskC();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class TaskC {
        public void solve(int testNumber, MyScan in, PrintWriter out) {
            in.nextInt();

            String t = in.next();
            int[] data = new int[t.length()];
            int cur = 0;
            for (int k = data.length - 1; k > 0; k--) {
                if (t.charAt(k) == 'E') {
                    cur++;
                }
                data[k - 1] += cur;
            }
            cur = 0;
            for (int k = 0; k < data.length - 1; k++) {
                if (t.charAt(k) == 'W') {
                    cur++;
                }
                data[k + 1] += cur;
            }
            out.println(Arrays.stream(data).min().getAsInt());
        }

    }

    static class MyScan {
        private final InputStream in;
        private byte[] inbuf = new byte[1024];
        public int lenbuf = 0;
        public int ptrbuf = 0;

        public MyScan(InputStream in) {
            this.in = in;
        }

        private int readByte() {
            if (lenbuf == -1) throw new InputMismatchException();
            if (ptrbuf >= lenbuf) {
                ptrbuf = 0;
                try {
                    lenbuf = in.read(inbuf);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                if (lenbuf <= 0) return -1;
            }
            return inbuf[ptrbuf++];
        }

        public boolean isSpaceChar(int c) {
            return !(c >= 33 && c <= 126);
        }

        public int skip() {
            int b;
            while ((b = readByte()) != -1 && isSpaceChar(b)) ;
            return b;
        }

        public String next() {
            int b = skip();
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            while (!(isSpaceChar(b))) {
                sb.appendCodePoint(b);
                b = readByte();
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }

        public int nextInt() {
            int num = 0, b;
            boolean minus = false;
            while ((b = readByte()) != -1 && !((b >= '0' && b <= '9') || b == '-')) ;
            if (b == '-') {
                minus = true;
                b = readByte();
            }

            while (true) {
                if (b >= '0' && b <= '9') {
                    num = num * 10 + (b - '0');
                } else {
                    return minus ? -num : num;
                }
                b = readByte();
            }
        }

    }
}



Measured memory_bytes: 32468