An Implementation of Regular Expression Parser in C#

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace RegularExpression
{
  internal class State
  {

    // the one and only Id tracker
    static private int m_nStateId = 0;

    // Set of transition objects
    public Map m_map = new Map();

    private int m_nId = 0;

    public State()
    {
      m_nId = m_nStateId++;
    }
    
    public int Id
    {
      get
      {
        return m_nId;
      }
    }

    public void AddTransition(string sInputSymbol, State stateTo)
    {      
      m_map.Add(sInputSymbol, stateTo);

      
    }

    public State[] GetTransitions(string sInputSymbol)
    {
      if (m_map.Contains(sInputSymbol) == true)
      {
        Set set = (Set)m_map[sInputSymbol];
        return (State[])set.ToArray(typeof(State));
      }
      return null;
    }

    public State GetSingleTransition(string sInputSymbol)
    {
      if (m_map.Contains(sInputSymbol) == true)
      {
        Set set = (Set)m_map[sInputSymbol];
        return (State) set[0];
      }
      return null;
    }
    public void RemoveTransition(string sInputSymbol)
    {
       m_map.Remove(sInputSymbol);
    }
    
    public int ReplaceTransitionState(State stateOld, State stateNew)
    {
      int nReplacementCount = 0;
      Set setTrans = null;
      foreach (DictionaryEntry de in m_map)
      {
        setTrans = (Set)de.Value;
        if (setTrans.ElementExist(stateOld) == true)
        {
          setTrans.RemoveElement(stateOld);
          setTrans.AddElement(stateNew);
          nReplacementCount++;
        }
      }
      return nReplacementCount;
    }

    private bool m_bAcceptingState = false;

    public bool AcceptingState
    {
      get { return m_bAcceptingState; }
      set { m_bAcceptingState = value; }
    }


    public bool IsDeadState()
    {
      if (m_bAcceptingState)
      {
        return false;
      }
      if (m_map.Count == 0)
      {
        return false;
      }
      Set setToState = null;
      foreach (DictionaryEntry de in m_map)
      {
        setToState = (Set)de.Value;
        
        State state = null;
        foreach (object objState in setToState)  // in a DFA, it should only iterate once
        {
          state = (State)objState;
          if (state.Equals(this) == false)
          {
            return false;
          }
        }
      }

      return true;
    }

    static public void ResetCounter()
    {
      m_nStateId = 0;
    }

    //public bool IsDeadEnd()
    //{
    //  return (m_map.Count == 0 && m_bAcceptingState == false ? true : false);
    //}

    
  }
}