diff --git a/nvm.sh b/nvm.sh
index 54a01c1..f8aea57 100644
--- a/nvm.sh
+++ b/nvm.sh
@@ -358,6 +358,16 @@ nvm_is_iojs_version() {
   [ "_$(echo "$1" | cut -c1-5)" = "_iojs-" ]
 }
 
+nvm_strip_iojs_prefix() {
+  local NVM_IOJS_PREFIX
+  NVM_IOJS_PREFIX="$(nvm_iojs_prefix)"
+  if [ "_$1" = "_$NVM_IOJS_PREFIX" ]; then
+    echo
+  else
+    echo "$1" | command sed "s/^$NVM_IOJS_PREFIX-//"
+  fi
+}
+
 nvm_ls() {
   local PATTERN
   PATTERN="$1"
@@ -1202,6 +1212,7 @@ nvm() {
     "unload" )
       unset -f nvm nvm_print_versions nvm_checksum \
         nvm_iojs_prefix nvm_node_prefix \
+        nvm_strip_iojs_prefix \
         nvm_is_iojs_version \
         nvm_ls_remote nvm_ls nvm_remote_version \
         nvm_version nvm_rc_version \
diff --git a/test/fast/Unit tests/nvm_strip_iojs_prefix b/test/fast/Unit tests/nvm_strip_iojs_prefix
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..782fbc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fast/Unit tests/nvm_strip_iojs_prefix	
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+die () { echo $@ ; exit 1; }
+
+. ../../../nvm.sh
+
+[ "_$(nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojs)" = "_" ] || die '"nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojs" did not return an empty string'
+[ "_$(nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojs-)" = "_" ] || die '"nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojs-" did not return an empty string'
+[ "_$(nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojs-foo)" = "_foo" ] || die '"nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojs-foo" did not return "foo"'
+[ "_$(nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojsfoo)" = "_iojsfoo" ] || die '"nvm_strip_iojs_prefix iojsfoo" did not return "iojsfoo"'