Weird Parse Error?? Please help

[Oleg Butuzov]

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Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /var/www/html/catalog/login.php on line 190
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Here are the 3 lines in my file:

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Line 188: <?php
Line 189: require (DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php');
Line 190: ?>
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what is DIR_WS_INCLUDES ?
might be $DIR_WS_INCLUDES ?