How to take a slice of a line in cmd that is on the clipboard?

Question

cmd/bat

How to take a slice of a line in cmd that is on the clipboard?

Answer 1

Create clipboard.vbs file

Set objHTML = CreateObject("htmlfile")
text = objHTML.ParentWindow.ClipboardData.GetData("text")
Wscript.Echo text

and on the command line use
cscript clipboard.vbs
to get clipboard data
PS why and why - don't ask, I don't even want to remember