this works

use PDL;

my $pdl1 = pdl(
 [  2.7650514,          0,          0,          0,          0,       0
+,          0],
 [0,   1.2905497,          0,           0,           0,        0,     
+      0],
 [          0,           0,  0.54930597,           0,        0,       
+    0,           0],
 [          0,           0,           0,  0.23264228,           0,    
+       0,           0],
 [          0,          0,       0,           0,  0.19463077,         
+  0,           0],
 [          0,       0,           0,           0,           0,  0.1666
+9291,           0],
 [       0,           0,           0,           0,           0,       
+    0, 0.095157451]);

my $pdl2 = zeroes(27,7);
$pdl1=transpose($pdl1);

$pdl3 = $pdl1->append($pdl2);

$pdl3=transpose($pdl3);
print $pdl3;

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Append appends along the first dimension, so you have to transpose first, then transpose back afterwards.

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In reply to Re: PDL matrix ... increasing column length by g0n
in thread PDL matrix ... increasing column length by Angharad

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