Is it not allowed to use $sformat inside generate statement?

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In reply to desperadorocks:
You are allowed to use $sformat inside a generate block, but the statements inside the generate block are not procedural unless you put it into that context. For example, you can use an initial block inside the generate.

generate
 for (ganvar num = 0; num < 12; num++) begin
  strong out_str; // this declaration has to be inside the for-loop
  initial begin
   $sformat(out_str, "`HELLO.fruit_num%0d", num);
   hello_if.fruit[num] = out_str;
  end
 end
endgenerate

If you want to keep the continuous assignment, then you need to use $sformatf

generate
 for (ganvar num = 0; num < 12; num++) begin
   assign hello_if.fruit[num] = $sformatf("`HELLO.fruit_num%0d", num);
 end
endgenerate