removing braces statements containing nested braces inside

A typical latex problem: \SomeStyle{\otherstyle{this is the \textit{nested part} some more text...}} Now I want to remove all \SomeStyle{...} but not the content. Content contains nested braces. The line above should become: \otherstyle{this is the \textit{nested part} some more text...} Questions: 1. Does any latex editor offer a way to do it? 2. What editor/script does it? 3. How to do it with sed? [🤓] My solution is a bash script using sed. 1. prepare text: mark replace string with ascii bell, add newline after each brace 2. loop: find { -> add X to hold space, find } -> remove X from hold space, hold space empty -> remove closing } 3. restore newlines and ascii bell to previous The script works but fails with: \badstyle{w}\badstyle{o}\badstyle{r}\badstyle{d} Iit will become: wo}rd} the branching to :f seems not to work. F=$(sed 's|\\|\\\\|g;s|{|\\{|g' <<< "$1" ) # mark all removestrings with ascii bell and newline # add newline after each { and } SEDpre=' s|'"$F"'|\a%\n|g s|\{|\{\n|g s|\}|\}\n|g ' SEDpost=' :a;N;$!ba; s|\a%\n||g s|\{\n|\{|g s|\}\n|\}|g ' # count the brackets SED=' /\a%/{ :a n :f /\{/{x;s|$|X|;x;ba} /\}/{x; s|X||; /^$/{x;bb} x ba } } b :b /\}/{ s|\}||; N; s|\n||; /\a%/bf } ' sed -r -E "$SEDpre" "$2" | sed -rE "$SED" | sed -rE "$SEDpost"