#include<cstdio>#include<cstring>usingnamespacestd;
int main()
{
char s[300005];
int n, m;
int ans = 0;
scanf("%d%d%s", &n, &m, s);
for ( int i = 1; i < n; i ++ )
if ( s[i-1] == '.' && s[i] == '.' )
ans ++;
while ( m -- )
{
int p;
char c;
scanf("%d %c", &p, &c);
p --;
if ( s[p] != '.' && c == '.' )
{
if ( p != 0 && s[p-1] == '.' ) ans ++;
if ( p != n-1 && s[p+1] == '.' ) ans ++;
}
elseif ( s[p] == '.' && c != '.' )
{
if ( p != 0 && s[p-1] == '.' ) ans --;
if ( p != n-1 && s[p+1] == '.' ) ans --;
}
s[p] = c;
printf("%d\n", ans);
}
return0;
}