LCDOUT command followed by variable data

Hi,

This must be recurrent subject but/and I can't recall how to handle this.

My project is about displaying time and adapting the output format to the number of digits to display adjusting mainly the number of spaces.

Since each LCDOUT command is 47 WORDs heavy, I'd like to avoid having to repeat this command all over my program.

This is a piece of my current code where one can see that I need to repeat the LCDOUT command often to fit the placement of characters.

Code:

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' Display time in "0:00:00" format
IF Hours > 0 THEN    ' " 0:00:00"
    LCDOUT $FE,$2," ",DEC Hours,":",DEC2 Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
    RETURN
ENDIF

IF Minutes > 9 THEN ' "  00:00"
    IF LapDisplay THEN 'Lap is displayed
        IF Lap > 9 THEN 'Lap is 2 characters wide
            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC2 Lap," ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
        ELSE 'Lap is 1 character wide
            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC1 Lap,"  ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
        ENDIF
    ELSE 'no Lap display
        LCDOUT $FE,2,"  ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
    ENDIF
    RETURN
ENDIF

IF Minutes >= 0 THEN    ' "    0:00"
    IF LapDisplay THEN
        IF Lap > 9 THEN
            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC2 Lap,"  ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
        ELSE
            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC1 Lap,"  ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
        ENDIF
    ELSE
        LCDOUT $FE,2,"    ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
    ENDIF
    RETURN
ENDIF

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How can I set a number of SPACEs by the mean of a variable?

Is there another way to achieve this?