how to set specific limits for a colorbar

Hi : I wanted to write a small code to generate a colorbar with limits from -180 to 180. any help please?

Answer 1

[Meghana Dinesh]

Use caxis([min, max]). By default is considers the min and max values of you data plot.

subplot(2,1,1)    % default case
surf(peaks(50))
colorbar
subplot(2,1,2)
surf(peaks(50))
caxis([-10, 10])  % the required limits set
colorbar