From 67f7aca1f8f79978ad66e3a445feff5f3381db5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nivida <samuel@ethereum.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 12:28:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] stripHexPrefix updated for upper case hex prefix

---
 packages/web3-utils/src/Utils.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/web3-utils/src/Utils.js b/packages/web3-utils/src/Utils.js
index fc50cf66ee3..9e52e547cea 100644
--- a/packages/web3-utils/src/Utils.js
+++ b/packages/web3-utils/src/Utils.js
@@ -118,12 +118,12 @@ export const isAddress = (address, chainId = null) => {
  *
  * @method stripHexPrefix
  *
- * @param {string} address
+ * @param {string} string
  *
  * @returns {string} address without prefix
  */
 export const stripHexPrefix = (string) => {
-    return string.slice(0, 2) === '0x' ? string.slice(2) : string;
+    return string.startsWith('0x') || string.startsWith('0X') ? string.slice(2) : string;
 };
 
 /**