How to generate a string of zeroes based on a pre-determined algorithm?

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I have the following code in place, and would like to condense the content of ‘Update’ down to a few lines at maximum. The code determines what an on-screen score counter displays, depending on the string length of the score.

using UnityEngine;

public class ScoreCounter : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int score;
    public GameObject GameManager;

    void Update ()
    {
        score = GameManager.GetComponent<GameLoop>().stats.score;
        

        if(score.ToString().Length == 1)
        {
            this.GetComponent<TextMesh>().text = "Score: 0000" + score + "000";
        }
        else if(score.ToString().Length == 2)
        {
            this.GetComponent<TextMesh>().text = "Score: 000" + score + "000";
        }
        else if (score.ToString().Length == 3)
        {
            this.GetComponent<TextMesh>().text = "Score: 00" + score + "000";
        }
        else if (score.ToString().Length == 4)
        {
            this.GetComponent<TextMesh>().text = "Score: 0" + score + "000";
        }
        else if (score.ToString().Length == 5)
        {
            this.GetComponent<TextMesh>().text = "Score: " + score + "000";
        }


        
    }    
}

I’ve calculated the number of zeroes needed in the first ‘Score’ string, which is:

5 - score.ToString().Length

I’m fairly sure that the next step here is to implement it as follows:

this.GetComponent<TextMesh>().text = "Score: " + 'insert code here with algorithm calculating zero count' + score + "000";

So the question is, what goes in that space, and if I’m completely wrong, what’s the solution?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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this.GetComponent().text = score.ToString("D5"); will always make it look like 5 digits.