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Token Tutorial: How to provide an address correctly to the `mintToken` function?

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I worked the Token tutorial. At one stage, newly minted tokens can be supplied to a target address. However, when I provide the address from a test account on a private net (eth.account[1]), I get an error:

> eth.accounts["0xf134f55797c344c5894d009d2784c0f32fd74199", "0x922d2931678e0641dc7d13cb38a2f0897252b0de"]> token2.mintToken(eth.accounts[1], 1000000)invalid address    at web3.js:3887:15    at web3.js:3713:20    at web3.js:4939:28    at web3.js:4938:12    at web3.js:4964:18    at web3.js:4989:23    at web3.js:4055:16    at web3.js:4141:16    at <anonymous>:1:1

I got the same error, when truncating the address by the prefix 0x, as I read about somewhere else.

How else do I need to format an address to provide to a contract?

Address is valid:

> var isStrictAddress = function (address) {....     return /^0x[0-9a-f]{40}$/i.test(address);.... };undefined> isStrictAddressfunction(address)> isStrictAddress(eth.accounts[0])true

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Try to set the default account and then execute!!!:

web3.eth.defaultAccount = web3.eth.accounts[0]

Hope this helps...!

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answered Dec 8 '17 at 6:05