Assigning amount of space characters

Is there a way to insert a certain number of spaces without physically inserting spaces between concatenated string fields?
For instance, say I want 5 spaces between Employee first and Employee last name.
Instead of doing this:
{table.firstname} &"     "&{table.lastname} //5 spaces betwen fields
I would like something like:
{table.firstname} &"{special syntax for 5 spaces} "&{table.lastname} //5 spaces betwen fields
Thanks in advance,
Zack H.

use this function
space(5)
regards,
Raghavendra

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