Displaying leading spaces in a Standard Report Column

Question

Is there a way to display leading spaces in a standard report column in APEX?
I am using the following hierarchy query to left pad the metric title with spaces to indent subordinate records. The problem is that the APEX report truncates the leading spaces when the data is displayed.
I have replaced the spaces with an underscore, however the end users prefers white spaces for readability.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
SELECT
t.group_id,
t.metric_id,
LPAD(' ',(LEVEL - 2)*5,' ') || d.metric_title metric_title,
d.business_unit,
get_name(d.data_owner) data_owner,
d.metric_status,
t.group_sort
FROM tbl_health_metric_groupings t JOIN tbl_health_metric_definition d ON t.metric_id = d.metric_id
WHERE t.group_id != 0
START WITH t.group_id = 0
CONNECT BY t.parent_group_id = PRIOR t.group_id
ORDER SIBLINGS BY t.group_sort, d.metric_title

Answer 1

Thanks Tony your comment got me pointed in the right direction.
LPAD only pads a single character to the left so doing something like LPAD(' ',(LEVEL -2)*5,' ') does not produce the expected results however placing LPAD inside a replace function does...
The following works as expected and places leading spaces at the begining of the metric title based on the hierarchy:
SELECT
t.group_id,
t.metric_id,
replace(LPAD(' ',(LEVEL - 2)*5,' '),' ',' ') || d.metric_title metric_title,
d.business_unit,
get_name(d.data_owner) data_owner,
d.metric_status,
t.group_sort
FROM tbl_health_metric_groupings t JOIN tbl_health_metric_definition d ON t.metric_id = d.metric_id
WHERE t.group_id != 0
START WITH t.group_id = 0
CONNECT BY t.parent_group_id = PRIOR t.group_id
ORDER SIBLINGS BY t.group_sort, d.metric_title