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This is my table structure, I want to find out the index of the tr which first td is empty, in this case, the index should be 1, how to pick it out?

<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td></td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>2</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td></td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>1</td>
  </tr>
</table>