Custom colors for group of bars in bar plot

I want to have custom colors for a group of bars in Matlab bar plot.

Like the one showed in the picture, but with different colors. I tried to use the following code but it shows stacked bars instead of the groups.

xdata = [1 2 3];
ydata = [10 20 30; 40 50 60; 5 6 7];
clr = [0 0.8 0;
   0.3 0.8 0.8;
   0 0 1];

for i = 1:length(xdata)
    p = bar(xdata, ydata(i,:));
    hold on
    set(p,'FaceColor', clr(i,:));
end

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Ovidiu]

Here is one solution:

xdata = [1 2 3];
ydata = [10 20 30; 40 50 60; 5 6 7];
clr = [0 0.8 0;
   0.3 0.8 0.8;
   0 0 1];

colormap(clr);
bar(xdata, ydata);

Notice that if you have a figure with multiple subplots, colormap changes the color scheme for all subplots.