Pad string with leading blanks

Im having trouble with padding leading blanks...
String PRpty_no = "10";
String qsPRpty_no = null;
qsPRpty_no = "PRpty_no=\""+pad(PRpty_no, 5, true)+"\" AND ";
protected String pad(String origString, int requiredSize, boolean justRight){
String theString=origString;
if(justRight){
while(theString.length()<requiredSize){ theString=" "+theString; }
} else {
while(theString.length()<requiredSize){ theString=theString+" "; }
return theString;
Returns:
theString = " 10"
theString = " 10"
theString = " 10"
It only adds 1 blank. The loop is obviously finishing when theString.length=5.
If I replace " " with "0" the desired result comes back:
theString = "010"
theString = "0010"
theString = "00010"
What is the difference using " " to "0"?

Unfortunately not GreyMan, copyright and all that. In the end the strings get concatenated into an sql query then run:
String sql="SELECT PRupi FROM PRprop WHERE ("+qsPRpty_no+qsPRpty_suffix+qsPRroad_id+")";
Where PRpty gets pulled out from an earlier sql as "10" and qsPRpty needs to be " 10" not " 10".

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