From 8e83ceaedc11e414a432934bf6c87c869665d657 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Moore <github@ricmoo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 14:58:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Check for invalid strings in BigNumber constructor. (#219)

---
 src.ts/utils/bignumber.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src.ts/utils/bignumber.ts b/src.ts/utils/bignumber.ts
index 4df3c3038..07532953b 100644
--- a/src.ts/utils/bignumber.ts
+++ b/src.ts/utils/bignumber.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ export class BigNumber {
             } else if (value.match(/^-?[0-9]*$/)) {
                 if (value == '') { value = '0'; }
                 defineReadOnly(this, '_bn', new BN.BN(value));
+
+            } else {
+                errors.throwError('invalid BigNumber string value', errors.INVALID_ARGUMENT, { arg: 'value', value: value });
             }
 
         } else if (typeof(value) === 'number') {