diff --git a/Text/ParserCombinators/Parsec/Number.hs b/Text/ParserCombinators/Parsec/Number.hs
--- a/Text/ParserCombinators/Parsec/Number.hs
+++ b/Text/ParserCombinators/Parsec/Number.hs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {- |
 Module      :  Text/ParserCombinators/Parsec/Number.hs
 Description :  portable number parsers
-Copyright   :  (c) C. Maeder 2011
+Copyright   :  (c) C. Maeder 2011-2014
 License     :  BSD
 
 Maintainer  :  chr.maeder@web.de
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@
 exponentFactor :: Floating f => CharParser st (f -> f)
 exponentFactor = oneOf "eE" >> extExponentFactor 10 <?> "exponent"
 
--- | pare a hexadecimal floating point starting with p (IEEE 754)
+-- | parse a hexadecimal floating point starting with p (IEEE 754)
 hexExponentFactor :: Floating f => CharParser st (f -> f)
-hexExponentFactor = char 'p' >> extExponentFactor 2 <?> "hex-exponent"
+hexExponentFactor = oneOf "pP" >> extExponentFactor 2 <?> "hex-exponent"
 
 {- | parse a signed decimal and compute the exponent factor given a base.
 For hexadecimal exponential notation (IEEE 754) the base is 2 and the
diff --git a/parsec-numbers.cabal b/parsec-numbers.cabal
--- a/parsec-numbers.cabal
+++ b/parsec-numbers.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:          parsec-numbers
-version:       0.0.4
+version:       0.0.5
 build-type:    Simple
 cabal-version: >= 1.6
 license:       BSD3