index/functions/canonicalDecimalString.md

canonicalDecimalString(value): string

A quantity in the form GalaChain's IsBigNumber validator accepts: FIXED notation, no leading zeros, no trailing decimal zeros (BigNumber#toFixed(); never toString(), which turns 0.00000001 into 1e-8, and never a JS number in between).

Parameters

Parameter	Type
value	string | number

Returns

string

Throws

GalaSDKError (INVALID_DECIMAL) for a value that is not a finite number. The wallet's cleanNumber returned the string 'NaN' there; signing that text can only fail on chain.