diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 1ab3269..14532da 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name = "MatrixDepot"
 uuid = "b51810bb-c9f3-55da-ae3c-350fc1fbce05"
-version = "1.0.14"
+
+version = "1.0.15"
 
 [deps]
 ChannelBuffers = "79a69506-cdd1-4876-b8e5-7af85e53af4f"
@@ -15,8 +16,10 @@ SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
 
 [compat]
 ChannelBuffers = "0.3.1, 0.4"
+
 DataFrames = "0.20 - 0.22, 1"
 MAT = "0.7 - 0.11"
+
 Scratch = "1"
 julia = "1"
 
diff --git a/src/matrixmarket.jl b/src/matrixmarket.jl
index 381bfe1..44434e7 100644
--- a/src/matrixmarket.jl
+++ b/src/matrixmarket.jl
@@ -438,14 +438,18 @@ function parsenext(T::Type{<:AbstractFloat}, v::Vector{UInt8}, p1::Int)
         daccu += 10^df * iaccu
     end
     f = if di <= 16 && daccu < UInt(1)<<53
-        if 0 <= eaccu < 23
+        if eaccu == 0
+            T(daccu)
+        elseif 0 < eaccu < 23
             T(daccu) * exp10(eaccu)
         elseif 0 < -eaccu < 23
             T(daccu) / exp10(-eaccu)
         else
+            sig = 1
             parse(T, String(view(v, p1:i-1)))
         end
     else
+        sig = 1
         parse(T, String(view(v, p1:i-1)))
     end
     i, (sig < 0 ? -f : f)
diff --git a/test/common.jl b/test/common.jl
index 4bf416f..b3555f3 100644
--- a/test/common.jl
+++ b/test/common.jl
@@ -206,3 +206,9 @@ io = IOBuffer()
 @test length(mdlist(hasdata(:A & (:b | :x)))) == 2
 
 end
+
+# issue 131
+@testset "parse($str)" for str in ("-0.0010831521544791237\n", "-0.00108e100\n")
+    c = MatrixDepot.getbytes(IOBuffer(str))
+    @test MatrixDepot.parsenext(Float64, c, 1)[2] == parse(Float64, str)
+end