Hi there fellow Monks and Monkettes!
I am having a bad day today ... too hot in this office not to have any air conditioning. Anyway .. I have a PDL matrix as shown below. 
 2.8017         0         0         0         0         0         0
         0    1.2969         0         0         0         0         0
         0         0    0.5495         0         0         0         0
         0         0         0    0.2329         0         0         0
         0         0         0         0    0.1953         0         0
         0         0         0         0         0    0.1723         0
         0         0         0         0         0         0    0.0959

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What I need to do is expand this matrix to make it 35 by 35 square .. including what I have above as the top 7 by 7 squares and the rest of the 35 by 35 matrix populated by zeros.
The only way I can think of doing this thus far is to extract the data from the current 7 by 7 matrix and creating a whole new 35 by 35 one, zeros included, in a for loop.
Would anyone have any better ideas? Any suggestions much appreciated.

In reply to expanding a PDL matrix by Angharad

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