How do I conditionally add a new line and tabs in Excel? - excel

I have a list of values id, name, category, description and a variable amount of keyword values; between 0 and 18 for each row. I want to create a list of those values in the form of:
(id, 'keyword')
, (id, 'keyword')
Where the list only increments if there is a keyword to go with the identifier. This is meant to be an easy manual list for a SQL INSERT statement.
I realize that I can use &CHAR(9) for inserting tabs and &CHAR(10) for inserting new lines, and thus my sequence for proper tabulation is &CHAR(10)&CHAR(9)&CHAR(9) for each new entry.
=IF(G2<>"",CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(G2),"')"),"")
&CHAR(10)&CHAR(9)&CHAR(9)&
IF(H2<>"",CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(H2),"')"),"")
I've tried several different combinations such as:
=IF(G2<>"",CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(G2),"')"),"")+
IF(H2<>"",CHAR(10)&CHAR(9)&CHAR(9)&CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(H2),"')"),"")
and
=IF(G2<>"",CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(G2),"')",CHAR(10),CHAR(9),CHAR(9)),"")+
IF(H2<>"",CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(H2),"')"),"")
and
=IF(G2<>"",CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(G2),"')"),"")+
IF(H2<>"",CONCATENATE(CHAR(10),CHAR(9),CHAR(9),"(",A2,", '",UPPER(H2),"')"),"")
which all give errors in calculation. Has anyone else been dying to know how to do this and had this kind of frustration? Does anyone have a solution to this?

I actually figured this out within an hour of posting, but neglected to post the solution here in case anyone else wanted to know.
You have to CONCATENATE the whole series of IF blocks and add the CHAR(10) and CHAR(9)s to the inner CONCATENATE blocks, like so:
=CONCATENATE(IF(G2<>"",CONCATENATE("(",A2,", '",UPPER(G2),"')"),""),
IF(H2<>"",CONCATENATE(CHAR(10),CHAR(9),CHAR(9),"(",A2,", '",UPPER(H2),"')"),""))
Thanks,
-C§

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