#include "iostream"
#include "climits"
#include "list"
#include "queue"
#include "stack"
#include "set"
#include "functional"
#include "algorithm"
#include "string"
#include "map"
#include "unordered_map"
#include "unordered_set"
#include "iomanip"
#include "cmath"
#include "random"
#include "bitset"
#include "cstdio"
#include "numeric"
#include "cassert"
#include "ctime"

using namespace std;

//constexpr long long int MOD = 1000000007;
constexpr long long int MOD = 998244353;
constexpr double EPS = 1e-8;

//int N, M, K, T, H, W, L, R;
long long int N, M, K, T, H, W, L, R;


int main() {
	ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
	cin.tie(0);

	cin >> N;
	string s;
	cin >> s;
	int num = 0;
	int mx = 0;
	for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
		if (s[i] == '#') {
			mx = max(mx, (int)N - i);
		}
		if (i && s[i] == '#' && s[i - 1] == '#')num++;
	}
	cout << mx + num << endl;
}