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Improve ethers.utils.parseUnits error message

See original GitHub issue

Getting this error: ethers-5.0.umd.min.js:1 Uncaught Error: invalid decimal value (argument="value", value=1, code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=bignumber/5.0.5)

in this statement

    value: ethers.utils.parseUnits(amount, "gwei"),
  };```

in amount variable the value is 1

In ethers 4.0 it works.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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jeffprestescommented, Oct 8, 2020

Thanks Ric. I believe it’s going to help some Devs.

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ricmoocommented, Oct 8, 2020

This has been fixed in 5.0.17. If you have any problems, please let me know.

Thanks! 😃

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