diff --git a/src/tokenizer.rs b/src/tokenizer.rs
index 0be44347..ca28add3 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer.rs
@@ -1516,9 +1516,7 @@ fn get_next_token_inner(
                     } else {
                         let out: String =
                             result.iter().filter(|&&c| c != NUMBER_SEPARATOR).collect();
-                        let num = INT_BASE::from_str(&out)
-                            .map(|v| v as INT)
-                            .map(Token::IntegerConstant);
+                        let num = INT::from_str(&out).map(Token::IntegerConstant);
 
                         // If integer parsing is unnecessary, try float instead
                         #[cfg(not(feature = "no_float"))]
diff --git a/tests/blobs.rs b/tests/blobs.rs
index 7036f116..43ba16a1 100644
--- a/tests/blobs.rs
+++ b/tests/blobs.rs
@@ -136,6 +136,13 @@ fn test_blobs_parse() -> Result<(), Box<EvalAltResult>> {
         0x1cf588
     );
 
+    assert_eq!(
+        engine.eval::<Blob>(
+            "let x = blob(16, 0); x.write_be(0, 8, 0x1234567890abcdef); x.write_be(8, 8, 0xabcdef1234567890); x"
+        )?,
+        vec![0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0x78, 0x90, 0xab, 0xcd, 0xef, 0xab, 0xcd, 0xef, 0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0x78, 0x90]
+    );
+
     Ok(())
 }