It would improve readability if the String could span multiple lines so that when embedding foreign language like SQL the developer would not have to break up the String with + operator. This would also make it easy to cut and past code back and forth between an SQL editor.
Regular expression would be a lot easier to read to. The expression \(\s+\) would not need to look like this. \\(\\s+\\)
C# does something like this with the @ symbol. Something like @ |